Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Warren taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago from 2012 to 2023 (now Emerita).  Her memoir, The Fair Fields, was published in December 2026. Her most recent books of poems are Hindsight (2025), So Forth (2020), Ghost in a Red Hat (2011), and Departure (2003). Her biography of Max Jacob, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters was published in October 2020. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, a Berlin Fellow in 2006, a resident at the American Academy in Rome in 1999-2000, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Her poems have been included in twelve editions of Best American Poetry and three Pushcart Prize volumes.  

During her visit in February 2027, Warren will read from her memoir The Fair Fields in the Rotunda Dome Room.